They regarded the Jews, both great and small, as their uncompromising opponents.

Their principles were not at stake, nor were their interests concerned in the affair.

Still the greater number felt how difficult it was growing for them to remain aloof from struggles in which all Penguinia was engaged.
Their leaders called a sitting of their federation at the Rue de la Queue-du-diable-St.Mael, to take into consideration the conduct they ought to adopt in the present circumstances and in future eventualities.
Comrade Phoenix was the first to speak.
"A crime," said he, "the most odious and cowardly of crimes, a judicial crime, has been committed.

Military judges, coerced or misled by their superior officers, have condemned an innocent man to an infamous and cruel punishment.

Let us not say that the victim is not one of our own party, that he belongs to a caste which was, and always will be, our enemy.